Anthony James Merrill Spencer
| Tony Spencer | |
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| Born |
Anthony James Merrill Spencer August 23, 1929 |
| Died | February 26, 2008 (aged 78) |
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| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The solution of plane plastic-elastic problems by relaxation methods, with applications to the theory of brittle fracture (1955) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ian Sneddon[1] |
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| Notable awards | FRS (1987)[2] |
Anthony James Merrill Spencer (23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008) FRS[2] was an applied mathematician whose main field of research was in understanding and predicting the mechanical behaviour of advanced materials.[1][3]
Awards and honours
Spencer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Anthony James Merrill Spencer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 3 Chadwick, P.; England, A. H.; Parker, D. F. (2015). "Anthony James Merrill Spencer 23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society publishing. 61. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0003. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Anthony James Merrill Spencer", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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